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What format should I choose?

Select your format based upon:

  1. how you want to read your book, and
  2. compatibility with your reading tool.

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Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members.

  • Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
  • DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
  • BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
  • MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
  • DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
  • EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
  • Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

2 result found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide 9780472026180 James S Jackson, Cleopatra H Caldwell, Sherrill L Sellers 2012
The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents [2 volumes]: [2 volumes] (Practical and Applied Psychology) 9798216133711 Kirkland C. Vaughans, Warren Spielberg, C. Jama Adams, Amma A. Agyemang, Neil Altman, Carl C. Bell, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Leon D. Caldwell, Michael E. Connor, Francine Conway, Shauna Cooper, Ellis Cose, Kobie I. Douglas, Jennifer I. Durham, Marian Wright Edelman, Edward Fergus, Anderson J. Franklin, Ann L. Gantt, James Garbarino, Beverly Greene, Perry Greene, Geoffrey L. Greif, James P. Griffin, Wizdom Powell Hammond, Paul Hill, Freeman A. Hrabowski, Stanley J. Huey, Sara Johnson, Michael V. Jones, Delores D. Jones-Brown, Jawanza Kunjufu, Haki R. Madhubuti, Marika Maris, Margary Martin, Kenneth I. Maton, Derrick Matthews, Dawn Delfin Mcdaniel, Enrique Neblett, Pedro A. Noguera, Michelle Owens, Desmond Upton Patton, Carlynn Pearson, Alison E. Schwing, Katie Sciurba, Eleanor Seaton, Azizi Seixas, Caitlin A. Smith, Phiip Spivey, Cheryl L. Thompson, Jay C. Wade, Joseph L. White, Zachery Williams, Johnny L. Williamson, Joel Wong 2014